I mean, it is essentially torture (solitary confinement for a year) but for a 30 bil sure.
My head is not the worst place to be in, I bet I could come out of it only slightly damaged.
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I'd do it no matter how much it would mess me up, and all that money, except enough to buy a nice house in my city, would be going towards an endowment for a trans charity. Its mission would be multi-faceted, providing direct supports for trans people alongside fighting legal battles. Hopefully that would nullify the contributions of people like J.K. Rowling.
a lot of people seem to be assuming solitary confinement, but nothing in the prompt actually indicates you can't have visitors. furthermore, you might have a lightswitch. being able to turn the lights off to sleep and chat with visitors might significantly slow your descent into madness. (though anyone would probably still be pretty fucked up after a year).
Doesn’t the “you have nothing” cover that?
you can't own people.
"you have no books, moovies, phones, consoles. NOTHING."
What if, you know, it's like now and you just pay a subscription for those?
So I'm assuming I get food, water and a bathroom. Also a lightswitch though likely one I control myself so I can't use it to gauge time. I'm probably not making it out fully sane but I think there are some mitigation strategies.
- Exercise, try and gameify it by keeping a high score.
- Arts and crafts with my food (maybe my hair too?)
- Some recreational math potentially using the grid of tiles, probably no more than 5 minutes a day before I get sick of it but any variety helps.
- Wall looks potentially climbable?
- Get good at shadow puppets.
Would definitely do it*.
- If the assumed necessities are met (lights don't even need to go off & the water can be warm).
The option to spend a day and take the 82m if downscaling is an option is wrong; 4Billion for 50days is the deal. Like surely you had a worst 2months and didn't get to do the following afterwards: set aside 1B to meet your needs and the needs of most people you know without working for a day of the rest of your life, 1B for projects that cannot fail (cushioned by the mountain of money or pile of gold), and 2B for any cause you believe in (go nuts: make a mini utopia, a nationwide dystopia, preserve the status que, or risk it and go after terrible people who would have never felt justice otherwise).
Honestly I think it'd be fine. I could practise oral traditions such as storytelling and singing, dance...
I'd enjoy trying to recall my life story up to that point and eventually be able to remember everything I've done and seen in detail, and be able to tell it all conversationally in amusing ways. I've never been happy with my autobiographical memory, and I never really tell stories about myself. I bet I could be a more integrated person if I spent time on that.
No way. Fuck that
What about the toilet facilities (or lack there of)?
I'm going insane already what's the difference
At least you wouldn't be alone - hat man is with you 🖤
Chekhov's short story The Bet has a similar setting, except that the person has access to books but not other people.
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When will Mr Beast make a YouTube video of this challenge?
It's a win if it gets rid of him for a year.
You would go insane. Full on.
Lots of time to Meditate.
my ex would sleep it through
I can't afford to pay 30bn for this.
Can anyone help me out?
Practice meditation for a year and have enough money to actually make a difference in this world after. Sounds ambitious but I think I'd have to give it a shot.
I don't think there's even a remote chance any non-coma victim would endure this
I'd give myself 2 weeks tops.
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And I also build little race cars out of my poop! It's Wing-Dangily wonderful madness!
Yes I would definitely do it
Yep, I’d just exercise and sleep.
As someone who has (voluntarily) done 24 hours in solitary confinement with nothing but a blanket, a toilet, a concrete floor, and one meal a day, I don't think anyone here will last more than 3 days. That was the longest, most painful 24 hours of my life.
probably could these days. I'm just tired all the damned time and can sleep for like 28 hours at a time
But I don’t have 30 billion dollars.
I'd do it, assuming my basic needs can be met. Lots of opportunity for exercise and meditation. That year would fly by.
Sure, I'll just pretend I'm in there for a year to train to fight Cell